Industry 4.0: Murderous boredom

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If you had to choose between a job where your adrenaline often skyrockets because of sudden tasks and deadlines that expired yesterday, and one where an automatic system has not only eliminated all the organisational chaos but it has taken the bulk of your everyday functions - which one would you choose? Let's not forget that things weren't always what they seemed.

Experts in psychology and social sciences are already pondering the implications of the the advent of a new era, the so called Fourth Industrial Revolution that's about to transform the workplace. Last year a new batch of researches and reports have warmed the global public some more about the coming of the age of automation as a result of the accelerated development of robotics, AI and self-teaching machines.

Apart from all the upsides that the boom of technology brings to mankind, there's also an intense discussion about how to mitigate and overcome the possible negative consequences on people, particularly the most immediate among them, job loss. The idea of a unconditional minimum income has received a new bush, and Bill Gates has proposed that companies should be paying a "robot tax" that would fund new types of activity, mostly in the social and humanitarian area.

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